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... their significance acquires added weight at this moment. We are hearing of the flight of the £ and the flopping of the gold standard. Aberdeen granite is one of the last things on earth likelv to be endowed with wings.- and the people who have built themselves ...

Published: Thursday 24 September 1931
Newspaper: Mearns Leader
County: Kincardineshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 279 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

AMERICAN INDUSTRIES Policy of Wage Reductions Causing Alarm

... exchange to he resumed in an atmosphere of calm and confidence . ITALY AND THE GOLD STANDARD An authoritative statement that . Italy does not intend to go off the gold standard is reported to have been recently sent- by the Italian Government and the Governor ...

Published: Thursday 24 September 1931
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1683 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

CURRENT EVENTS

... 1 get a general election are most willing to give up the prospect of sC ing it. g They argue that since we are vV the gold standard it does not matter , longer what foreign countries think * us and that they can indulge hankering for good old-fashioned ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 910 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

STOCK AND TRADE NOTES

... for the time being. Its course, naturally, reflects the feeling abroad concerning our momentous decision to abandon the gold standard and simultaneously advance Bank rate to the penal level of 6 per cent Throughout the day the exchange value cf tho £ was ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 872 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

FREE TRADERS' POSITION

... there may have been a week ago for Free Traders holding back from tariffs. has disappeared with our falling away fom the gold standard. for the primary object of protection was to flit up the gap between imports and exports by restricting imports. - - _ ...

Published: Monday 28 September 1931
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 213 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE POUND WILL NOT GET OUT OF HAND— MR SNOWDEN

... POUND WILL NOT GET OUT OF HAND— MR SNOWDEN. COUNTRY'S INTERNAL FINANCES ON SOUND BASIS. Why We Were Forced To Suspend Gold Standard. CHANCELLOR'S HINT OF FISCAL CHANGES. Repugnant Expedients In Tackling Adverse Trade Balance. (From Our Parliamentary ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2426 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DAY BY DAY

... man to marry only one wife, and this was called monotony. What most schoolboys would like se« abolished is the good gold standard. ** * * What the modern girl coming asks a writer. Slowly, but surely, to middle age. ♦* * is said that an elephant ...

Published: Thursday 24 September 1931
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 571 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Mfl fUNDm ON COLD

... Mfl fUNDm ON COLD Indian Government Action Criticised Mr Gandhi referred to tho question of tho Gold Standard at yesterday ' s meeting of tho Federal Structure Committee . Ho said that whije every thoughtful Congress man must sympathise with the British ...

Published: Wednesday 23 September 1931
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 279 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

FREIGHTS AND SHIPPING

... 000 qrs ., 10 per cent ., Antwerp or Rotterdam . 7 lj cents , with options . October . CARDIFF . —The abandonment of the gold standard caused a considerable amount of uncertainty durinK the ptst week , and . b ^ reason , ol the cautiousness it induced , ...

Published: Monday 28 September 1931
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 281 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

COALS FOR NEWCASTLE

... great profit and power. Thus they explain the last refusal of America of the advance of second loan to keep Britain the gold standard. Those who believe the existence of this plan will find confirmation of their idea in the very curious item of news in ...

Published: Friday 25 September 1931
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 238 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

GANDHI'S SURPRISE AND SORROW

... GANDHI'S SURPRISE AND SORROW. Pained Over Action of Indian Government. Mr Gandhi referred to the question of the gold standard at yesterday's meeting London of the Federal Structure Committee of the Indiaji Bound Table Conference. He said that while every ...

Published: Wednesday 23 September 1931
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 225 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Lihp . ral Dissensions

... increased in ' the hope of further results . For instance , if , as is expected in many quarters , the suspension of the Gold Standard gives an impetus to trade , as it should do after the first uncertaint y has subsidedthe number of unemployed will be ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 828 | Page: 6 | Tags: none